Boy dies after homeopathic treatment: A seven-year-old boy died from septicaemia after being treated with homeopathic medicine for otitis, his parents and the homeopath have been placed under investigation.

What naturopaths really want: Doctors are increasingly seeing patients whose very real diseases are being managed with bogus naturopathic therapies.

The “other medicine” … how shall we call it?: It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride. There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. Prof Edzard Ernst investigates.

The Doctor Who Saved Countless Newborn Babies: Virginia Apgar touched your life the moment you emerged from your mother’s womb. Apgar is best known as the creator of a simple test that changed the course of neonatology—the care of newborn infants—forever.